Luis Jacob + Mies van der Rohe

Luis Jacob’s historical and urbanistic considerations are coupled with a
philosophical and anthropological approach that characterizes his
artistic, literary and curatorial practice. The bank of images found and
then assembled by Jacob in Album XII (2013-14) highlights the
subjective framework of the aesthetic experience, which is projected
from the work of art into a broader perception, toward the gaze we cast
on what we are made up of individually and collectively. Grouped
together according to a principle of free correspondence, the images
suggest analogies that are to be constructed, developed or completed by
the viewer. Analogy is offered as form and content, both in the dialogue
between the images and in the meeting of the perceiving subject and the
perceived object.